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F ounders a nd p atriots 
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CONSTITUTION and BY-LAWS. 


CHARTER ASSOCIATES. 


































































. . .ORDER. . . 

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OF THE 

FOUNDERS AND PATRIOTS 

OF AMERICA. 


CONSTITUTION, BY-LAWS AND 
CHARTER ASSOCIATES. 


Officers of the New York 
Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots 

of America. 


April, 1896, 
New York. 


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OFFICERS 

OF THE 

NEW YORK SOCIETY OF THE 

Order of the pounders and Patriots 

♦ 

OF AMERICA. 


ELECTED AT THE FIRST ANNUAL MEETING AT 
HOTEL NORMANDIE, APRIL 24, 

1896. 


Governor. 

Frederick Dent Grant, New York. 

Deputy Governor. 

Ralph Earl Prime, Yonkers. 

Treasurer. 

William Winton Goodrich, 59 Wall Street, New York. 

Secretary. 

Henry Lincoln Morris, 253 Broadway, New York. 

States Attorpey. 

Morris Patterson Ferris, Yonkers. 

Registrar. 

Howard Sumner Robrins, Hotel Endicott, New York. 

historian. 

George Rogers Howell, Albany. 

Chaplain. 

Joseph Fulford Folsom, Kearny, N. J. 










Councilors. 


For Three Years. 

Henry Hall, New York. 

James Jerome Belden, Syracuse, N. Y. 

Ferdinand Pinney Earle, New York 


For Two Years. 

Edward Payson Cone, New York. 

Lewis Cheesman Hopkins, New York. 

Clarence Lyman Collins, New York 


For One Year. 

John Quincy Adams, New York. 

Thomas Hubbard Stryker, Rome, N. Y. 

John Winslow, Brooklyn, N. Y 





Matthew Hinman. 

George Clinton Batchellor 


Membership Committee. 

Edward Hegaman Hall. 

Samuel Victor Constant. 
Daniel Greenleaf Thompson. 


Nominating Committee. 

Edward Nelson Granville Greene. 


Jonathan Flynt Morris. 
Edward Clinton Lee. 


James Henry Hoadley. 
James Betts Lockwood. 


Historical Committee. 


William Reed Eastman. 
Thomas Egleston. 


William Henry Watson. 

Chauncey Pratt Williams. 
William Anderson Mitchell. 


Installation Committee. 

Charles Waterman Bently Wilkinson. 

Lewis Cheesman Hopkins. George West Van Siclen. 

Willis Gaylord Tucker. Harry Curtis Cushman. 

Entertainment Committee. 

John Quincy Adams. 

Clarence Lyman Collins. Henry Benedict Davenport. 

George Walton Livermore. Warren Sanford Banks. 

Auditing Committee. 

Howard Sumner Robbins. 

Howard Marshall. Stillman Foster Kneeland. 

John Henry Washburn. Horace Morrison Carleton. 

Committee on Permanent Headquarters. 

Stillman Foster Kneeland. 


Edward Nelson Granville Greene. 
Howard Marshall. 


Warren Sanford Banks. 
Matthew Hinman. 















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Charter associates 


OK THE 

Order of the Founders and Patriots of (3rr)erica. 


1. Edward Nelson Granville Greene. 

2. Howard Sumner Robbins. 

3. Howard Marshall. 

4. Henry Lincoln Morris. 

5. John Quincy Adams. 

6. Ralph Earl Prime. 

7. Charles Waterman Bently Wilkinson. 

8. Henry Hall. 

9. William Winton Goodrich. 

10. Washington Irving Lincoln Adams. 

11. Clarence Lyman Collins. 

12. George Walton Livermore. 

13. Matthew Hinman. 

14. Samuel Victor Constant. 

15. Morris Patterson Ferris. 

16. Lewis Cheesman Hopkins. 

17. Frank William Mix. 

18. Henry Anson Hoyt. 

19. Ferdinand Pinney Earle. 

20. John Henry Washburn. 

21. Horace Morrison Carleton. 

22. Charles Mather Glazier. 

23. Edward Pliney Chapin. 



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Charter Associates. 


24. Henry Applegate Wilson. 

25. Willis Gaylord Tucker. 

26. John Emery Morris. 

27. Franklin Flint Hathaway. 

28. Francis Lowell Hills. 

29. George L. Hutchings. 

30. Joseph Fulford Folsom. 

31. William Anderson Mitchell. 

32. Frederic Allen Angell. 

33. John Winslow. 

34. James Jerome Belden. 

35. William Cornell Strong. 

36. Daniel Greenleaf Thompson. 

37. George Washington Case. 

38. Charles Snow Kellogg. 

39. John Harvey Lockwood. 

40. William Ellery Hills. 

• 41. George Clinton Batchellor. 

42. Frederick George Swan. 

43. Edward Payson Cone. 

44. Stillman Foster Kneeland. 

45. William M. Stetson. 

46. William Henry Clapp. . 

47. George West Van Siclen. 

48. Henry Benedict Davenport. 

49. William Bolles Baldwin. 

50. James Henry Hoadley. 

51. William Cary Sanger. 

52. James Edward Chapin. 

53. Chauncey Pratt Williams. 

54. James Henry Lindsley. 

55. Francis Durando Nichols. 

56. Gilbert Mulligan Tucker. 

57. Edward Clinton Lee. 





Charter Associates. 


58. William Henry Watson. 

59. William Henry McClure. 

60. Harry Curtis Cushman. 

61. William Armstrong Halsey. 

62. Elmer Severance Forbes. 

63. Thomas Hubbard Stryker. 

64. Marvin Dana. 

65. Charles Broadwell Corwin. 

66. Edward Hegaman Hall. 

67. James Emery Brooks. 

68. James Betts Lockwood. 

69. George Everett Halsey. 

70. Chauncey Leeds Mitchell. 

71. Theron Augustin Wales. 

72. Jonathan Flynt Morris. 

73. Frederic Augustus Rauch Baldwin. 

74. George Rogers Howell. 

75. William C. Russell. 

76. Warren Sanford Banks. 

77. John Crocker Foote. 

78. William Reed Eastman. 






Articles of Uncorporatlon. 


City, County and State of New York , ss. 

We the undersigned, John Quincy Adams, William 
W. Goodrich, Edward N. G. Greene, Henry Hall, 
Howard Marshall, Henry Lincoln Morris, Ralph E. 
Prime, Howard Sumner Robbins, Charles W. B. Wil¬ 
kinson, natural persons, all of full age, all citizens of 
the United States, and all of us residents of the State 
of New York, do hereby certify; that we have hereby 
associated ourselves together, and hereby form a corpo¬ 
ration under the laws of the State of New York, that 
the particular objects for which the corporation is to be 
formed are ; (i) to bring together and associate con¬ 
genial men, whose ancestors struggled together, for life 
and liberty, home and happiness, in this land when it 
was a new and unknown country, and whose line of 
descent from them, comes through patriots, who sus¬ 
tained the colonies in the struggle for independence in 
the Revolutionary War; (2) to teach reverent regard 
for the names and history, character and perseverance, 
deeds and heroism, of the founders of this country and 
their patriot descendants; (3) to teach that the pur¬ 

pose of the founders could have had no lasting result, 
but for their patriot sons ; (4) to inculcate patriotism 

in the associates and their descendants; (5) to dis¬ 
cover, collect, and preserve records, documents, manu¬ 
scripts, monuments, and history relating to the first 



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Articles of Incorporation. 


colonists and their ancestors and their descendants; 
(6) to commemorate and celebrate events in the his¬ 
tory of the colonies and the Republic; (7) and other 
historical and patriotic purposes. That the name of 
the said Corporation shall be “The New York Society 
of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America ’ ’ ; 
that the territory in which the operations of said cor¬ 
poration are to be principally conducted is the United 
States of America; that the city in which the principal 
office of said corporation is to be located, is the City 
of New York; that the number of the directors of said 
corporation who shall also be known by the name of 
“councillors,” and who shall manage the affairs of the 
corporation shall be nine; that the names of the per¬ 
sons to be such directors (and who shall also be known 
by the name of “councillors”) until the first annual 
meeting of said corporation and the places of residence 
of each of them, are as follows : 

Names of Directors Place of residence of each 

(Also called Councillors.) respectively set opposite his name. 

John Quincy Adams, 101 W. 89th St., New York City. 
William W. Goodrich, 924 President St., Brooklyn,N.Y. 
Edward N. G. Greene, 315 Clinton Ave., Brooklyn,N.Y. 
Henry Hall, Corner 59th St. & 5th Ave., New York City. 
Howard Marshall, 93 Halsey St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Henry Lincoln Morris, 33 W. 12th St., New York City. 
Ralph E. Prime, 63 Hawthorne Ave., Yonkers, N. Y. 
Howard Sumner Robbins, 10 i W. 81st St., N. Y. City. 
Charles W. B. Wilkinson, 12 W. 46th St., N. Y. City. 

That the time for the holding of the Annual meeting 
of the said Corporation shall be the nineteenth day of 
April in each year; that the persons above named, 
being the incorporators and such persons as shall be ac- 



Articles of Incorporation, 


in¬ 
cepted by them, and whose eligibility shall be approved 
by them, and such other persons as shall be admitted to 
membership according to the laws of the state and the 
laws and rules to be adopted by the said corporation shall! 
compose, and shall be members of said corporation; 
that the qualification for membership to said corporation 
shall be, that the member is descended from an ances¬ 
tor who settled in this country in the period between. 
May r3, 1607 and May 13, 1657 inclusive, and that 
his intermediate ancestors who lived in the period of 
the Revolution adhered as Patriots to the cause of the 
Colonies. 

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands 
and made, subscribed and acknowledged this certificate* 
the sixteenth (16th) day of March, 1896. 

John Quincy Adams, Henry Lincoln Morris, 
Wm. W. Goodrich, Ralph E. Prime, 

Edward N. G. Greene, Howard S. Robbins, 

Henry Hall, Charles W. B. Wilkinson* 

Howard Marshall. 

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City, County and State of New York, ss : 

On this sixteenth day of March, 1896, before me 
personally came John Quincy Adams, William W. 
Goodrich, Edward N. G. Greene, Henry Hall, Howard 
Marshall, Henry Lincoln Morris, Ralph E. Prime, 
Howard S. Robbins, Charles W. B. Wilkinson, all to 
me personally known and known to me to be the in¬ 
dividuals described in and who executed the foregoing 
certificate or instrument in writing and severally ac¬ 
knowledged that they executed the same. 

Wm. Barker, 

Notary Public, N. Y. Co. 


[Seal] 



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Articles of Incorporation. 


I, Jackson O. Dykman, a Justice of the Supreme 
Court, in and for the second Judicial District of the 
State of New York do hereby make this my approval of 
the making and of the filing of the foregoing and an¬ 
nexed certificate of incorporation of the “ New York 
Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of 
America.” 

Dated at White Plains the 17th day of March, 1896. 

J. O. Dykman, J. S. C. 

(Endorsed) 

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION of 
The New York Society of the Order of the Founders 
and Patriots of America. 

State of New York. 

Office of SECRETARY OF STATE. 

Filed and recorded Mar. 18, 1896. 

Andrew Davidson, 

Deputy Secretary of State. 

STATE OF NEW YORK, j . 

Office of the Secretary of State j SS ' 

I have compared the preceding with the original Cer¬ 
tificate of Incorporation of The New York Society of 
the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America 
filed and recorded in this office on the 18th day of 
March, 1896, and do hereby certify the same to be 
a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said 
original. 

Witness, my hand and the Seal of Office of the 
Secretary of State, at the City of Albany, this 18th day 
of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six. 

[Seal] Jno. Palmer, 

Secretary of State. 



Articles of Incorporation. 17 

STATE OF NEW YORK, \ . 

City and County of New York } ss ' 

I, Henry D. Purroy, Clerk of the said City and 
County, and Clerk of the Supreme Court of said State 
for said County, Do Certify that I have compared 
the preceding with the original Certificate of Incorpo- 
raton of “The New York Society of the Order of the 
Founders and Patriots of America,” on file in my 
office, and that the same is a correct transcript there¬ 
from, and of the whole of such original. 

Endorsed, filed and recorded March 18th, 1896, 1 
h., 28 M. 

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed 
my name and affixed my official seal, this 19th day of 
March, 1896. 

[Seal] Henry D. Purroy, 

Clerk. 

















preamble. 


Recognizing Almighty God as guiding our ancestors 
to this land, to establish of their descendants, not a 
Colony, but an independent sovereign Christian nation, 
destined by Him to occupy a commanding place among 
the nations of the earth, and to protect and defend 
liberty in all the Western Hemisphere, and recognizing 
that the foundations of the nation were laid in the 
perils and hardships of the first fifty years by our an¬ 
cestor settlers of that period, rather than in the years 
that followed, and recognizing that necessary to that 
end for which our ancestors came was a patriot pro¬ 
geny in the time of the Revolutionary struggle, out of 
which our country came to be independent and our na¬ 
tion came into being, for ourselves and those who may 
associate with us, we have formed an Association 
founded on descent from such ancestry and through 
their patriot descendants, and to that end, adopt the 
following; 


Constitution. 

ARTICLE I. 

NAME. 

Section i. The name of the Association is the 
‘‘Order of the Founders and Patriots of America." 

ARTICLE II. 

OBJECTS AND PURPOSES. 

Section i. The object or purpose of the Order is, 

1. To bring together and associate congenial men, 
whose ancestors struggled together for life and liberty, 
home and happiness, in this land, when it was a new 
and unknown country, and whose line of descent from 
them, comes through patriots who sustained the Colo¬ 
nies in the struggle for independence in the Revolu¬ 
tionary War. 

2. To teach reverent regard for the names and his¬ 
tory, character and perseverance, deeds and heroism, of 
the founders of this Country and their patriot descend¬ 
ants. 

3. To teach that the purpose of the founders could 
have had no lasting result but for their patriot sons. 

4. To inculcate patriotism in the associates and 
their descendants. 

5. To discover, collect and preserve records, docu¬ 
ments, manuscripts, monuments and history relating to 
the genealogy and the history of the first Colonists and 
their ancestors and their descendants. 


Constitution. 


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6. To commemorate and celebrate events in the 
History of the Colonies and the Republic. 

7. Other historical and patriotic objects and pur¬ 
poses. 

ARTICLE III. 

ORGANIZATION. 

Section i. The Order consists of, 

1. A General Court to be known as the General 
Court of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of 
America. 

2. A society of the Order in each State, District or 
Territory of the United States, and in such Foreign 
State or Country in which it may be planted, each of 
which, prefixed with the name of the political division 

in which located, is to be known as The-Society of the 

Order of the Founders and Patriots of America. 

3. Such other societies of the Order as may be 
formed by the division of one society of the Order 
into two or more societies of the Order as authorized 
by this Constitution. 

ARTICLE IV. 

MEMBERS. 

Section i. The members of the Order shall be 

called ‘ ‘ Associates. ’ ’ 

Section 2. All Associates of the Order shall be 

active members, of a society of the Order. 

Section 3. Any man of the age of twenty-one 

years, of good moral character and reputation, and a 
citizen of the United States, is eligible to membership 
in the Order, who is lineally descended in the male 
line of either parent, from an ancestor who settled in 
any of the Colonies, now included in the United 




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Constitution. 


States of America, from the settlement of Jamestown, 
May 13, 1607, to May 13, 1657, inclusive, and whose 
intermediate ancestors at the call of the Colonists, ad¬ 
hered as patriots to their cause through the Revolu¬ 
tionary War that followed, and which ended with the 
independence of the Colonies. 

Section 4. The Sons of any Associate who shall 
have obtained membership under the foregoing Section 
3, of this Article, shall also be eligible to member¬ 
ship, provided they shall be of good moral character 
and reputation and citizens of the United States. 

Section 5. No person shall be admitted an Associ¬ 
ate of the Order, without previous investigation into, 
and ascertainment of his qualifications for member¬ 
ship, and each society may by by-law provide for 
the manner of such investigation and ascertainment, 
and of the mode of election of the members of such 
society. 

Section 6. Any person who shall have obtained 
membership by intentional misrepresentation or conceal¬ 
ment, as to his qualification for membership, or who 
shall be guilty of any violation of the Laws of the 
Order, or who shall be guilty of conduct unbecoming 
a gentleman or a patriot or a good citizen, after due 
inquiry and hearing, may be expelled from membership 
in the Order. Any person who shall have obtained 
membership by an innocent but material misstatement 
or nonstatement, may, after due inquiry and hearing, 
be dropped from membership in the Order. Any 
member who shall have obtained membership as the 
son of an actual member in the Order, may, after due 
inquiry and hearing, be dropped from membership in 
case it shall appear that the parent was not qualified 
for membership. 



Constitution. 


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Section 7. Payment of the initiation fee and one 
year’s dues and signing the Constitution, either in per¬ 
son or by proxy, all within three months after notice 
of election to membership, shall be necessary to con¬ 
summate such membership and omission so to do, shall 
ipso facto make void the election of the member. 

Section 8. An Associate of one society of the Order 
may be transferred to another society of the Order upon 
his written request, accompanied by a letter of recom¬ 
mendation and dimission from the society from which 
transferred, and under such regulations as the society 
to which he seeks transfer may prescribe. 

Section 9. Membership in two or more societies, by 
the same person, may be authorized and regulated by by¬ 
laws. 

Section 10. The General Court, and each society 
of the Order, may elect such associates as shall have 
rendered distinguished service to the Country, or to the 
Order, to be Honorary Associates. 

Section ii. Honorary Associates of the Order, and 
all such associates as shall commute their dues for life, 
shall be Life Associates of the Order. 

ARTICLE V. 

INSIGNIA, RIBBON, ROSETTES, DIPLOMA AND SEAL. 

Section i. Within twelve months after the adop¬ 
tion of this Constitution, the General Court or the 
Council General, or the body acting as, and exercising 
the powers of either, shall fix, designate, adopt and 
describe, the Insignia of the Order, the Ribbon of the 
Order, the Rosette of the Order, the Diploma of the 
Order, and the Seal of the General Court, and shall 
promulgate the same to the Order, and thereafter the 
same may from time to time be changed, but only by 



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Constitution. 


the General Court at an annual meeting and by a five- 
sixths affirmative vote of all the votes cast, such vote 
being taken by societies. 

Section 2. The Insignia, the Ribbon, the Rosette, 
and the Diploma, shall only be issued from and by au¬ 
thority of the General Court of the Order, under such 
regulations as it from time to time may prescribe. 

Section 3. Within six months after the organization 
of any society of the Order, such society or its Coun¬ 
cil shall fix, designate, adopt and describe the Seal of 
such society, and thereafter the same may from time 
to time be changed, but only by the society by a 
two thirds vote of those present and voting at an an¬ 
nual meeting. 

ARTICLE VI. 

THE FOUNDERS OF THE ORDER. 

Section i. Those persons, nine in number, who on 
the 16th day of March, 1896, subscribed the Certificate 
of Incorporation of The New York Society, which is 
the parent Society, and formed the Order, are hereby 
recognized as the Founders of the Order, and so long 
as they remain members of a society of the Order, 
shall also be members of the General Court. 

ARTICLE VII. 

THE general court. 

Section i. The General Court shall consist of the 
"Founders of the Order, also all actual and all past 
Governors General, Deputy Governors General, Chap¬ 
lains General, Secretaries General, Treasurers General, 
Attorneys General, Registrars General and Historians 
’General of the General Court; also all actual Council¬ 
ors General during their respective terms of office; 



Constitution. 


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also all actual Governors, Deputy Governors, Chaplains, 
Secretaries, Treasurers, States Attorneys, Registrars and 
Historians of the several societies of the Order during 
their respective terms of office, provided however, that 
no person shall be a member of the General Court, 
unless he shall be at the time a member in good stand¬ 
ing in one of the societies of the Order, 

Section 2. The officers of the General Court shall 
be a Governor General, a Deputy Governor General, a 
Chaplain General, a Secretary General, a Treasurer 
General, an Attorney General, a Registrar General, 
and a Historian General, each to hold office for one 
year, and until his successor is elected and installed, 
and nine Councilors General, and each Councilor Gen¬ 
eral shall hold office for three years and until his suc¬ 
cessor is elected and installed, provided however, that 
the General Court shall divide the Councilors General 
first chosen into three classes; one class to serve one 
year, one two years, and one three years, and until 
their successors are elected and installed. The Coun¬ 
cilors General shall also be the Directors of the Order, 
and meeting together, constitute the Board of Directors 
of the General Court, without whose consent no debt 
can be incurred or continuing obligation entered into 
by the General Court, or the Council General. All the 
officers of the General Court shall constitute the Coun¬ 
cil General. All such officers shall be chosen at the 
annual meeting of the General Court. If more than 
one candidate is nominated for an office, that office 
must be filled by ballot. 

Section 3. Any officer of the General Court may 
be removed from office in such manner as shall be 
provided by by law. 

Section 4. The annual meeting of the General 



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Constitution. 


Court shall be held on the 13th day of May in each 
year, or at such other time after that date, but as near 
as may be thereto, as the Council General may deter¬ 
mine. The General Court shall hold such other meet¬ 
ings as it may determine by by-law, rule, order or 
resolution. 

Section 5. The powers and duties of the officers 
of the General Court, and of the Council General shall 
be such as usually belong to such officers by name of 
the office and such as shall be conferred by by-law, or 
may be conferred by the General Court or the Coun¬ 
cil General. 

Section 6. Until three societies of the Order are 
constituted and organized, the “New York Society of 
the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America,” 
as a Society or through its Council, shall exercise all 
the power and authority of the General Court, and 
shall act as the General Court, and its officers shall act 
as the officers of the General Court. When three so¬ 
cieties of the Order are constituted and organized, 
the Council of that Society shall fix a time and place 
for the first meeting of the General Court, and cause 
notice by mail to be given to all members thereof. 

Section 7. The General Court shall have and exer¬ 
cise the following powers : 

1. The chief executive, legislative and judicial pow¬ 
ers within the order. 

2. To entertain, hear and decide all appeals and 
complaints by any society, or by any associate, and to 
regulate the cases in which appeals may be taken. 

3. To advise any society concerning any question 
arising under the Constitution, or the By-laws, of the 
Order when asked by such Society. 

4. Upon application of any nine Associates of the 



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Order, residing in any State, District, Territory or 
Country by Charter to constitute them, and those 
whom they may admit, pursuant to the laws of the Or¬ 
der, into a society of the Order for the political divi¬ 
sion in which they reside and give to such society a 
name, and fix a time and place for the first meeting. 

5. In its discretion to divide one society of the Or¬ 
der into two or more societies of the Order, whenever 
the associates of such society shall exceed one hundred 
in number, and application for such division be made 
by the society or by associates thereof equal to one-third 
of all its associates, and to give to each divided society 
a name, which may be taken from a part of the polit¬ 
ical division in which located, or a city therein, and to 
divide the property and the associates of the society 
among the divided societies and to regulate and direct 
the organization and fix times and places for the first 
meeting of each, subject to the limitations of this Con¬ 
stitution, and on such division to issue to each of the 
divided societies, a charter, or to all but one thereof, 
which one, it may see fit to allow to retain the name, 
identity, and charter of the society before the division. 

6. To issue all diplomas of membership and all in¬ 
signia and rosettes. 

7. To provide, and to order, and direct the form, 
and on such terms as it shall fix, issue to the societies 
of the Order, blank applications for membership and 
regulate the use thereof. 

8. To require from the societies of the Order such 
reports and returns and statistics of associates, of funds, 
and of other information, and the payment of assess¬ 
ments, as it shall from time to time order and pre¬ 
scribe or assess. 

9. To cancel, recall or suspend the charter of any 



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Constitution. 


society of the Order for failure to obey the Constitu¬ 
tional requirements of the General Court, or for failure 
to exercise its rights and privileges, or for violation of 
any law of the Order. 

Section 8. In General Court, each member thereof 
shall have one vote, except that when any nine mem¬ 
bers shall demand that a vote be taken by societies, 
each member shall then have one vote and each society 
shall have as many votes as it has returned associates, 
to be divided as near as may be equally among the 
members of the General Court who are associates of the 
society and to be cast by them severally. 

Section 9. The expenses of the General Court shall 
be provided by a pro rata assessment upon each of the 
societies of the Order according to its respective num¬ 
ber of associates, and the General Court or Council 
General may enforce payment thereof. 

Section 10. No officer of the General Court shall 
be eligible to election successively to the same office 
for more than two terms. 

Section ii. The Headquarters and principal busi¬ 
ness office of the Order shall be in the City of New 
York. 

ARTICLE VIII. 
societies of the order. 

Section i. The Founders of the Order, and all 
such persons as have been accepted by them and whose 
eligibility has been approved by them, are the char¬ 
ter associates of, and shall constitute the society of the 
Order in the State of New York, and shall be 
known by the name of the “ New York Society of the 
Order of Founders and Patriots of America.” Other 
members of any society of the Order shall be chosen 


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and admitted as shall be provided by this Constitution 
and by by-law. 

Section 2. Other societies of the Order may be 
constituted by the General Court as herein provided. 
Each society, except the New York Society, exists by 
virtue of its charter. No society of the Order shall 
have power to incur any debt or enter into any contin¬ 
uing obligation except on its own behalf and not on 
behalf of the Order, nor on behalf of the General 
Court. 

Section 3. The officers of each society of the Order 
shall be a Governor, a Deputy Governor, a Chaplain, 
a Treasurer, a Secretary, a States Attorney, a Regis¬ 
trar, an Historian, each to hold office for one year and 
until his successor is elected and installed, and nine 
Councilors, and each Councilor shall hold office for 
three years, and until his successor has been elected 
and installed, provided however that the society shall 
divide the Councilors first chosen into three classes, one 
class to serve one year, one two years, and one three 
years, and until their successors are elected and in¬ 
stalled. The Councilors of each society of the Order 
shall be the Directors thereof, and shall together con¬ 
stitute a Board of Directors, without whose consent no 
debt can be incurred nor continuing obligation entered 
into on behalf of the society of the Order of which 
they are Directors. All the officers shall constitute the 
Council. Any officer of a society of the Order may be 
removed from office, as shall be provided by by-law. 
All the officers shall be elected at the annual meet¬ 
ing. If more than one candidate is nominated for the 
same office, that office must be filled by ballot. 

Section 4. The powers and duties of the officers 
and of the Council, are such as are prescribed in this 




30 


Constitution. 


Constitution and in the By-laws of the Order. Each 
society of the Order may also confer other powers and 
duties upon its own officers and its own Council. 

Section 5. Each society of the Order shall hold an 
annual meeting on the 19th day of April, in each 
year, or at such other time after, and as near as may 
be thereto, and at such place as its Council shall de¬ 
termine ; also such other meetings as each society for 
itself shall determine. 

Section 6. No officer of a society of the Order shall 
be eligible to election successively to the same office, 
for more than two terms. 

ARTICLE IX. 

FUNDS. 

Section i. The initiation fee and annual dues shall 
be fixed by by-law. 

Section 2. Any Associate may commute his annual 
dues by paying at any time a sum equal to ten 
years’ annual dues, and shall become a life member. 
All life members are exempt from payment of dues. 

ARTICLE X. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

Section i. All notices, required by the Constitu¬ 
tion, or by any by-law of the Order, or of any so¬ 
ciety, may be given personally to the person to be 
notified, or by leaving at his place of residence or of 
business, or by mail to him at his ordinary or last 
known address or by mail to any address he shall have 
given, with his application papers, or afterward to the 
secretary of his society. 

Section 2. Provision shall be made by By-law for 



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defining when, and how, vacancies in office shall occur 
and for filling same, also for filling of offices when 
the same shall not have been accepted within a time 
to be specified after election. 

Section 3. Any society of the Order may organize 
chapters of its members to consist of not less than nine 
associates. 

ARTICLE XI. 

ARREARS. 

Section i. Any Associate in arrears for six 
months’ annual dues, shall not hold office in the 
Order, sit in the General Court, or vote in any so¬ 
ciety. Each society may, by by-law, provide for the 
suspension, or dropping from the rolls, after reasonable 
notice and an opportunity to be heard, of any associ¬ 
ate in arrears for dues, after they shall be due and 
payable for one year, and for the removal of the sus¬ 
pension thereof. Absence from a place where reason¬ 
able notice could reach him shall be a waiver of 
notice. 

ARTICLE XII. 

AMENDMENTS. 

Section i. The Preamble of this Constitution shall 
never be changed or dispensed with. The Constitution 
shall always require as a qualification of membership, 
an ancestor who settled in the first fifty years, and that 
all intermediate ancestors who lived in the Revolution¬ 
ary Period, shall have adhered as patriots to the cause 
of the Colonies. 

In other respects, this Constitution may be amended 
at any annual meeting of the General Court by a 
five-sixths vote of all the votes cast, the vote being 



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taken by Societies, and the amendment having been 
proposed by one society of the Order, and notice 
thereof having been given by it to the Secretary Gen¬ 
eral and by him having been given to the Secretary of 
each other society of the Order, at least one month be¬ 
fore the annual meeting of the General Court. 

JSt^Xawy 

OF THE ORDER OF THE FOUNDERS AND PATRIOTS OF 

AMERICA. 

OFFICERS OF THE GENERAL COURT. 

Section i. The Governor General shall be the 
official head of the Order, and shall perform such du¬ 
ties as shall pertain to that office. He shall preside at 
all meetings of the General Court and at meetings of 
the Council General, and perform all duties that usu¬ 
ally pertain to a presiding officer. 

The Deputy Governor General shall, in the ab¬ 
sence of the Governor General, perform his duties, and 
exercise his powers. In the absence of the Governor 
General and Deputy Governor General from a meeting, 
a chairman pro-tem. shall be chosen to preside. 

The Secretary General shall keep the minutes of 
all meetings of the General Court and also of the 
Council General ; shall have charge of the Constitution 
and By-laws, Seal and General Records of the General 
Court and Council General. He shall give due notice 
to each member of the General Court of its meetings 
and to the members of the Council General of its 
meetings. He shall conduct the general correspondence 
of the Order under the direction of the Governor Gen- 

/ 

eral, and perform such other duties as may be required 
of him by the General Court, or by the Council Gen- 



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eral. He shall make report in writing at the annual 
meeting of the General Court, and at such other times 
to the General Court or the Council General as the 
General Court or the Council General shall require. 

The Treasurer General shall collect and receive 
all funds belonging to the General Court and deposit 
the same to the credit of the Order in such manner 
as the Council General may direct. He shall give 
such bond as may be required by the Council General. 
He shall pay out moneys only as the General Court or 
the Council General shall order. He shall make a full 
and classified report in writing, of moneys received and 
paid out, at the annual meeting of the General Court 
and at such other times as the General Court or Coun¬ 
cil General may direqt. He shall keep full and ac¬ 
curate account in books to be the property of the 
Order, which shall be open to the inspection of any 
officer of the General Court at any time. 

The Attorney General shall be the general law 
officer of the General Court. He shall have charge of 
and supervise the proceedings relating to the formation 
of subordinate societies. 

The Registrar General shall have custody of all 
duplicate applications for membership, shall examine 
the same, approve and disapprove thereof, and advise 
the Registrar of the society of the Order trom whom 
they come, of such approval or disapproval, and the 
reason thereof when disapproved, and when approved, 
he shall give a number in the Order to the applicant. 
He shall keep a roll of all members of the Order, the 
society to which each belongs, the residence of each, 
and his number in the Order. He shall make full re¬ 
port in writing at each annual meeting ot the General 
Court, and at such other times as required by the 



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General Court or the Council General, and perform 
such other duties as the General Court or the Council 
General may require of him. 

The Historian General shall have custody of all 
Historical documents, patriotic documents, documents 
and papers relating to the genealogy and history of the 
first Colonists and their ancestors and their descend¬ 
ants, which may be in the possession of the General 
Court, or which may be loaned to the General Court, 
all under the supervision of the General Court or un¬ 
der its control. He shall make a full report in writ¬ 
ing at the annual meeting of the General Court, and 
at such other times as the General Court or the Coun¬ 
cil General may direct. He shall perform such other 
duties as the General Court or. the Council General 
shall direct. 

The Chaplain General shall perform such religious 
services as may be called for by the General Court or 
the Council General. 

THE COUNCIL GENERAL. 

Section 2. The Council General shall have and 
possess and exercise all the powers and authority of 
the General Court when the General Court is not in 
session, except such powers as by the Constitution must 
be exercised by the General Court. Five members is 
a quorum of the Council General, except that when 
money is appropriated or action taken affecting prop¬ 
erty, and for such purpose a majority of the Council 
General is a quorum. Meetings of the Council Gen¬ 
eral may be" called by the Governor General, and at 
the request of five members must be called by the 
Secretary General, and the Council General may by 
rule, order, or resolution, or otherwise provide for its 



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35 

own meetings and the times and places thereof. The 
Council General may remove from office any officer of 
the General Court, for any violation of the laws of the 
Order, or for conduct unbecoming a gentleman, a 
patriot, or a good citizen, but only after an oppor¬ 
tunity to be heard, and pending the matter it may 
suspend the officer and devolve his duties on another 
officer. The Council General shall fill all vacancies 
in offices of the General Court, until the annual meet¬ 
ing of the General Court. 

In case any person elected to an office in the Gen¬ 
eral Court shall fail to file with the Secretary General 
within one month after notice, by mail, of his elec¬ 
tion, an acceptance in writing of the office, the Coun¬ 
cil General shall appoint a member of the General 
Court to fill the office until the next annual meeting 
of the General Court. 

MEETINGS OF THE GENERAL COURT. 

Section 3. Meetings of the General Court shall 
be held as it shall order, and also as same may be 
called by the Council General. Nine members shall 
constitute a quorum. 

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETIES OF THE ORDER. 

Section 4. The Governor shall preside at all 
meetings of his society, and of the Council thereof, 
and perform all such duties as usually pertain to a pre¬ 
siding officer. He shall appoint all committees unless 
otherwise ordered. He shall perform such other 
duties as the Society or the Council shall direct. 

The Deputy Governor in the absence of the Gov¬ 
ernor shall perform his duties and shall exercise his 
powers. In the absence of the Governor and Deputy 



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36 By-Laws. 

Governor from a meeting a chairman pro-tem. shall be 
chosen to preside. 

The Secretary shall keep the minutes of all meet¬ 
ings of his society and of the Council thereof, in books 
to be the property of the Society. He shall have 
charge of the Charter, Constitution and By-laws, Cer¬ 
tificate of Incorporation, Seal and Records of his soci¬ 
ety and the Council thereof. He shall keep a roll of 
associates of his society, and a mailing address book 
for the post-office addresses of members. He shall 
give due notice to each associate of his society of its 
meetings and to the members of the Council thereof of 
its meetings. He shall keep a book of the Constitu¬ 
tion and By-laws to be signed by all associates of his 
society. He shall conduct the general correspondence 
of his society, under the direction of the Governor. 
He shall perform such other duties as may be required 
of him by his society or its Council. All the books 
and papers kept by him or in his charge officially 
shall be the property of the society. He shall make 
full report in writing at the annual meeting of his 
society, and at such other times as it or its Council 
shall require. 

The States Attorney shall be the general law ad¬ 
viser of his society, and perform such other duties as 
it or its Council shall require. 

The Treasurer shall collect and receive all funds 
belonging to his Society and shall deposit the same to 
the credit thereof in such manner as its Council may 
direct. He shall give such bond as may be required 
by the Council. He shall pay out moneys only as his 
society or its Council shall order, to be made only upon 
check, signed by him and countersigned by the Secre¬ 
tary. He shall notify all members of their election 



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37 


and collect from all members their fees and dues. 
He shall notify the Council and also the Secretary ol 
all associates in arrears for six months, also of the fail¬ 
ure of a person elected to membership to pay his fee 
and dues within three months. He shall make full 
and classified report in writing of moneys received and 
paid out, at the annual meeting of his society and at 
such other times as it or its Council shall direct. He 
shall keep full and accurate accounts in books to be 
the property of the Society, which shall be open to in¬ 
spection of any officer at any time. 

The Registrar shall have custody of all applications 
for membership and shall issue the same as required 
and provided by the Council. He shall receive the 
duplicate applications for membership, and examine, ap¬ 
prove or disapprove thereof, and certify them in order 
and report thereon, either to the society or to its 

Council, or to a committee of the society, or otherwise 
as by by-law the society may have required. Before 
and after such report he may require of the applicant 
for membership correction of his papers or further 

proofs. He shall notify the Secretary and also the 
Treasurer of each member elected, and of his residence, 
place of business and post-office address, and of the 
date of election. Upon the election of any member, 
he shall endorse upon the duplicate application, the 
date of the election, and forward one duplicate to the 
Registrar General and retain for the society the other 
duplicate causing the same to be bound into books 

as the Council may direct. He shall deliver to the 
Historian all such historical information as shall accom¬ 
pany applications for membership after applications 
have been accepted. He shall perform such other 

duties as his society or its Council shall order. He 






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shall report in writing at the annual meeting of his 
society, and at such other times as the Society or its 
Council shall direct. 

The Historian shall have custody of all historical 
documents and patriotic documents and documents and 
papers relating to the genealogy and history of the first 
Colonists, their ancestors and their descendants, belong¬ 
ing to the Society or its Council or loaned to it or 
under its control He shall also edit and publish such 
books, documents and papers as the society or its 
Council shall direct. He shall act as Necrologist. 
He shall make a report in writing at the annual meet¬ 
ing of the society and at such other times as the so¬ 
ciety or the Council shall direct. 

Each Society may provide for other Officers and for 
a Deputy or Assistant to any Officer of the Society but 
no such Officer becomes a member of the General 
Court nor of the Council of his Society but shall have 
such powers and perform such duties as his Society 
shall provide. 

THE COUNCILS OF SOCIETIES OF THE ORDER. 

Section 5. The Council of each society of the 
Order shall exercise the powers of the society, when the 
society is not in meeting, except such powers as must 
be exercised by the Society itself. It may appoint 
committees not herein provided for and prescribe their 
duties. Five ol its members is a quorum of the Coun¬ 
cil, except that when money is appropriated or action 
affecting property is taken, and for such purpose a ma¬ 
jority of the Council is a quorum. Meetings of the 
Council may be called by the Governor of the Society, 
and at the request of five associates must be called by 
the Secretary, and each Council may by rule, order, 



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resolution or otherwise, provide for its own meetings 
and the time and place thereof. The Council may re¬ 
move from office any officer for any violation of the 
laws of the Order, or for conduct unbecoming a gen¬ 
tleman, a patriot or a good citizen, but only after an 
opportunity to be heard, and pending the matter it 
may suspend the officer and devolve his duties on 
another officer. The Council shall fill all vacancies in 
offices of its society until the next annual meeting of 
the Society. 

When the Society shall have elected an officer, if 
within ten days after notice by mail of the election he 
shall fail to file his written acceptance with the Sec¬ 
retary, the Council shall appoint an associate of the 
society to fill the office until the next annual meeting 
of the Society. 

MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES OF THE ORDER. 

Section 6. Meetings of a society of the Order 
shall be held as it or its Council shall direct. Nine 
associates shall constitute a quorum. 

ELECTION OF OFFICERS OF SOCIETIES. 

Section 7. In the election of officers of the so¬ 
cieties of the Order, if only one associate be in nomi¬ 
nation for an office, the election to fill that office may 
be by a viva voce vote, or by show of hands, but if 
more than one is nominated for any office the election 
for that office must be by ballot. Nominations for 
office may be made orally at the meeting. Written 
nominations may be made by any five associates of a 
society by notice in writing, subscribed by them, and 
delivered to the Secretary at least twenty days before 
he annual meeting, and the Secretary must cause all 



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such nominations in writing to be printed and a copy 
mailed to each associate of his society at least ten 
days before the annual meeting. At the annual meet¬ 
ing, as the first order of business, the presiding officer 
must appoint three tellers who must immediately pre¬ 
pare a poll to receive ballots for all officers to be 
elected thereat by ballot. No associate in arrears for 
six months shall be allowed to vote. A majority of the 
persons voting shall be necessary to elect. Associates 
not present may vote by proxy. No proxy shall be 
made to any officer or to a candidate for an office, 
and no associate shall be allowed to cast votes on 
more than ten proxies, but the associate executing 
the proxy may authorize him to whom the proxy 
is given, to substitute any other associate to cast the 
vote. Should any meeting adjourn, without effecting 
the election of an officer proper to be elected thereat, 
the Governor, or in case of no call by him within 
five days thereafter, the Council within ten days there¬ 
after shall call a special meeting to complete the 
election. 

VACANCIES IN OFFICE. 

Section 8. Vacancies in Office, both in the 
General Court and in the Societies of the Order, shall 
occur by reason of death, resignation to the Secretary 
of the Society or Secretary General of the General 
Court, ceasing to be an Associate of the Order, sus¬ 
pension from membership. An Office in a Society 
shall also become vacant by transfer of the Officer to 
another Society. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

Section 9. (a) Every applicant for membership, 

must apply in writing and in duplicate. His applica- 



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tion must state his age, residence, occupation, place of 
business, and his post office address, and such other mat¬ 
ters and things and information as the Council Gen¬ 
eral shall direct, and must be recommended by two 
associates, and the application must be presented to the 
Registrar of a society of the Order, and shall be ac¬ 
companied by such historical information concerning 
his Colonial Ancestor and those in the line of descent 
to himself, as the society shall request, and the applica¬ 
tion shall be examined, as the By-laws of the particu¬ 
lar society shall require, to ascertain the qualifications 
of the applicant, and when ascertained, shall be 
reported, approved or disapproved, either to the 
society or to its Council or to one of them, 
for election, as the By-laws of such society shall 1 pro¬ 
vide. (b) Such election must be by ballot, and one 
negative ballot in every five cast, or five negative bal¬ 
lots in all shall reject the applicant, and he cannot 
again apply for membership within one year thereafter, 
nor to any other society than that in which rejected, 
without its consent. (c) Upon the election of any 
member, one of the duplicates of the application papers 
shall be forwarded to the Registrar General, and upon 
paying the initiation fee and one year’s dues, and sign¬ 
ing the Constitution and By-laws in person or by 
proxy, the membership is consummated and the name 
of the associate shall be enrolled in the Society in 
which elected and he shall thereby become an associate 
therein, (d) Any associate who shall join in the ap¬ 
plication for the organization of a new Society of the 
Order, by his notice in writing to the Secretary Gen¬ 
eral or other officer acting as such, may elect to retain 
his membership in the Society in which he is enrolled 
at the time of the application, and also to become a 



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42 By-Laws. 

member of the new Society. (e) Any associate, a 
member of a Society of the Order which is divided 
into two or more Societies of the Order, by his notice 
in writing to the Secretary General or other officer 
acting as such, within one month after the division, 
may elect to become a member of one or more of the 
divided Societies besides that Society to which he is 
assigned by the division. (f) Each Society of the 
Order may by By-law provide for admitting to dual 
membership, and for the enrolling in its membership of 
associates, members of other Societies, and the manner 
and the terms on which they may be so admitted, 
(g) Associates are liable to pay dues in all the sev¬ 
eral Societies in which they are members, (h) An 
associate, a member of more than one Society, may re¬ 
sign his membership in any Society, and in the same 
manner and on the same terms as he may withdraw 
from membership in the Order. 

WITHDRAWAL. 

Section io. Any associate in good standing, not in 
arrears or otherwise indebted to the society or the 
Order, may withdraw from membership in the Order 
by written notice to the Secretary and Treasurer of 
the society in which he is enrolled 

DISCIPLINE. 

Section ii. Each society shall provide for and 
regulate the censure, suspension or expulsion of its 
members, and for the suspension and termination of 
membership for non-payment of dues or otherwise. 

FEES AND DUES. 

Section 12. The initiation fee shall be five dol¬ 
lars and the annual dues to be paid by all but life 



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and honorary associates, shall be five dollars, to be 
paid on notice of election to membership, and there¬ 
after shall be due and payable on the 19th day of 
April in each year, provided that the dues paid by an 
associate upon his election to membership after January 
1st, and before April 19th, in any year, shall be in 
full of annual dues to April 19th, of the year follow¬ 
ing. 

AMENDMENTS. 

Section 13. These By-laws may be amended at 
any meeting of the General Court by a two-thirds vote 
of all the votes cast, the vote being taken by Soci¬ 
eties. 





















JB^Haws 


OF THE 

NEW YORK SOCIETY OF THE ORDER OF THE FOUNDERS 
AND PATRIOTS OF AMERICA. 

Section i. The headquarters of this Society is in 
the City of New York. 

Section 2. Associates of the Order shall in this So¬ 
ciety be elected by the Council. 

Section 3. There shall be a membership commit¬ 
tee of five to be elected by the Society at the annual 
meeting in each year, and the vacancies therein shall 
be filled by the Council from time to time as they 
occur. 

Section 4. Applications for membership when ex¬ 
amined and certified in order by the Registrar shall be 
delivered by him to the Committee on Membership, 
which committee, assisted by him, shall investigate and 
ascertain the qualifications of the applicant and only 
upon their unanimous approval shall report be made 
thereon. When so approved the membership commit¬ 
tee shall make report to the Council and thereupon the 
Council must determine by ballot if the applicant shall 
be elected to membership. 

Section 5. Charges against an Associate for any 
cause under the Constitution and By-laws, must be in 
writing, signed by two Associates and addressed to the 
Council. The Council shall consider the same, and if 
deemed material, shall fix a time and place for hearing, 
cause notice to the accused person, to be served either 
personally or by leaving at his residence, or place of 
business, or by mail, at which time and place the ac- 


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cused must answer the same, orally, or in writing, and 
the Council shall make its own rules and procedure 
and shall 'hear such proofs as may be offered, and be 
the absolute judge of the competency and materiality 
of the evidence, may adjourn from time to time the 
hearings, and if they find the charges to be true, may 
inflict punishment provided for by the Constitution. 

Section 6. If any Associate shall be in arrears for 
dues for three months after notice, the Treasurer shall 
report the same to the Council, which shall cause no¬ 
tice to be given to the person in arrears, that if not 
paid within one year from the time when dues became 
due and payable, he will be liable to suspension. At 
any time within such year he may appear, and be 
heard before the Council and the Council shall have 
the power to remit such dues, or extend the time of 
payment, and at the expiration of such year, or such 
further time, if granted, the Council may order him to 
be suspended or to be dropped from the rolls of mem¬ 
bership. An Associate when suspended for one year 
may be dropped from the rolls. An Associate suspended 
may be restored by the Council. A member dropped 
from the rolls may be restored by a two-thirds vote of 
the members present and voting at any meeting of the 
Society. 

Section 7. Any Associate of another society of the 
Order desiring to transfer his membership to this so¬ 
ciety or to be enrolled as a member of this society of 
the Order, as well as in the society in which already 
enrolled, in either case, must apply therefor in writing. 
In each case his application must be accompanied by a 
certified copy of his application papers on which he 
was admitted to membership in the Order, and in case 
of his application to transfer, must also be accompanied 



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by his letter of recommendation and dimission, and 
his application shall be delivered to the Registrar, 
who, if he finds the papers in order, shall submit the 
same to the membership committee, and upon their 
approval he shall be enrolled as a member of this 
society. Any associate who holds dual membership, in 
this and in any other society at the same time, shall 
pay dues to this society in same manner as though he 
was enrolled in this society only. 

Section 8. Upon application in writing of nine as¬ 
sociates of this society, residing in any locality, the 
council may constitute them into a chapter, which 
shall be authorized to make By-Laws for its own gov¬ 
ernment and to admit other members thereto, but no 
person other than an associate of this society shall be¬ 
come a member thereof. 

Section 9. The Council of the Society shall, at 
its first meeting after the annual meeting of the So¬ 
ciety, appoint the following committees of the Society, 
each to consist of five members: 

1. An Installation Committee. 

2. An Auditing Committee. 

3. An Historical Committee. 

4. A Nominating Committee. 

5. An Entertainment Committee, 

and from time to time may prescribe their duties. 

Section 10. These By-laws may be amended at 
any meeting of the society by a two-thirds vote of the 
members present and voting, the amendment having 
been recommended by the Council, or proposed by 
five members, and a copy of the recommended or 
proposed amendment with notice of the meeting, hav¬ 
ing been given all the Associates of the Society ten 
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